Sentences with phrase «emeryville mud flats»

Anyone stranded on the mud flats would have been at risk of drowning, said the scientists, whose findings are reported today in the online journal Public Library of Science ONE.

Essentially it was a mud flat with the odd patch of grass attempting to show through.

Mud flat organisms become established encouraging other life forms changing the organic composition of the soils.

When the river overflows its banks, it carries the soils from the floodplain and eroded upland agricultural soils down - stream creating sand dunes, mud flats, and deltas.»

In 2013, at Happisburgh on the eastern coast of England, wave action revealed human footprints on a tidal mud flat beside an eroding cliff.

At Walvis Bay in Namibia, a scouring wind pushes sand dunes across an ancient mud flat.

More than 1.5 million years ago, several human ancestors wandered across a mud flat at what is now Ileret, Kenya.

The third is environmental: the natural mud flats and salt marshes of the coast are havens for tens of thousands of birds and other wildlife, but they are being squeezed between rising sea levels and sea walls.

The BTO says the birds need access to uncovered mud flats in daylight, and power generation schemes which change the timing and extent of the water's retreat could reduce the bird population.

Most are in East Anglia, but other possible sites could be in the northwest, around the Ribble estuary and Morecambe Bay, which have the greatest expanse of salt marshes and mud flats in England.

One is geomorphological: erosion provides the sediment that builds up the natural coastal defences of other areas of coastline, by forming marshes or beaches, shingle bars or mud flats.

Their absence on the mud flats is because many appear to migrate to the upper reaches of the harbour where they cluster around surface water sewer outfalls.

While symbiotic relationships in coral reefs have been known for some time, the discovery of hydrothermal vents in 1977 has spurred an interest in symbiotic relationships, and led to their recognition in many other types of habitats, such as mangrove swamps, mud flats, and sewage outlets.

In preparation for the local release, we chat to the delightful director about movies, music, mud flats, and the titular mad bastards.

Down below I think of the mud flats of the bay.

Always visit an island before buying: you may be surprised to discover it's surrounded by acres of mud flats at low tide, or that it's so far away from grocery stores and parking that it's next to impossible to live on.

After my experience in the mud flats, I never complained about the price of a package of frozen bloodworms again, and I realized that the store that sold them must have made a huge percentage of its profit strictly on this one item.

The UF VETS team also recently coordinated the rescue of «Midnight» the horse from a mud flat in Paynes Prairie.

So it was amid this watery network of tidal waterways, mud flats, small islands and mangrove forests, that I took my chances.

It was magnificent to watch them and also the egrets that mingled nonchalantly among them punctuating the cuppocino hued monkeys, and smudges of dark beige of the mud flats with the bright white of their long white necks and feathers.

It was laying on the mud flat soaking in the rays only giving itself away with a slight movement of the tail before it flitted off.

We followed the trail along the mud flats but these trailed off into the mangrove and away from sight.

The black mangrove (Avicennia sp.), recognized by its many pneumatophores sticking up from the roots through the mud flats or supratidal to intertidal sands which generally surround it, usually forms «forests» along more sheltered areas of the shore.

Bird life is plentiful, especially at low tide when shallow mud flats rich in intertidal invertebrates are exposed.

At times, in the shallow mud flats immediately encountered after leaving San Pedro Lagoon, one will find one of the more ornate smaller murexes spawning, probably Cabrit's Murex (Murex cabritii).

In winter, snowy plovers are found on many of the beaches used for nesting as well as on beaches where they do not nest, and on estuarine sand and mud flats.

The tidal mud flats of the Langebaan Lagoon attract thousands of migratory birds every year, as well as attracting bird watchers who come to view over 300 species of birds found in the lagoon waters.

By nightfall, the animal appeared to have hauled out on a mud flat in the area.

This beach is home to many boats that are moored just off shore and at low tide the mud flats are exposed.

View spectacular waterfalls and explore the mud flats, volcanic...

Do not leave the tracks on the mud flats or your vehicle will get stuck.

Bear to the right, leave the graded road and go through El Datil and Ballena via the mud flats.

The park has 330km2 of underwater forest, bush plains and of course, the centrepiece, Lake Manyara, which has alkaline waters with a pH level near 9.5 during the wet season but turns to a large area of mud flats during the dry spells.

Stroll along the boardwalk, drop a line into the river with the kids, watch the soldier crabs scamper along the mud flats when the tide is out, view the birdlife and enjoy the peace and serenity on offer.

In the late 1990s his ongoing investigation of architectural and social space evolved into large - scale interentions, from the 300 closely ranked reinforced concrete blocks of Allotment (1996) to the 100 solitary cast iron figures facing towards the horizon on the coastal mud flats at Cuxhaven, northern Germany (Another Place, 1997).

She spent long summers with her grandmother in Nova Scotia, where she remembers being exposed to water on all sides, playing on the mud flats, and doing «a lot of clay stuff.»

An photo by Robert Sommer of the construction of one of the Emeryville mud flats sculptures, c. 1960s, on view this spring in BAMPFA's «Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia» exhibition.

This spring, «Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia» will celebrate works from the past, including the Emeryville mud flats sculptures between Berkeley and Oakland and the radical actions of the Dutch group the Provos.

I stomped on low - tide mud flats to elicit the squirt of buried clams.

The Sundarbans: a near - mythic landscape of forest and swamp, byzantine river channels and tidal mud flats, one of the last strongholds of the highly endangered Bengal tiger.

The Wadden Sea The Wadden Sea is located at the southeastern part of the north sea and it's known to be the largest unbroken system of inter-tidal sand and mud flats in the world.

Then you have light brown mud flat, low reddish - brown succulents like glasswort, mid-green taller rushes and arrowgrass, then finally yellow - green short trees like mangroves.

The mud flat was a bit disappointing, as Mummy had miscalculated the tides and it was ringed by jagged oyster shells.

I'd never been there before, but that didn't stop me promising Sprog 1 lots of crab - catching opportunities on the mud flat.

Not exact matches

I pour the morning cup of mud, schlep out to the stoop to get my paper, and open my WSJ to learn that the yield curve is awfully flat (i.e., the difference between the interest rates of bonds of different maturities is low).

As I said, the roof was flat, and most likely made of timbers, covered with sticks and mud, and laid over with rock tile.

Have her spread the mud out on the ground or in a flat, shallow pan.

Some showed skin whorls, some were flat with distinct anatomical detail, others were of running feet — imprints of the front part of the foot only, of toes gripping the mud.

«If you've ever walked outside and seen an area on the ground where there's mud and the water dries up, even that is pretty flat — but you get cracks in the mud and pieces that curl up,» Zebker says.

They're flattering, super light weight (we're talking second skin here), and it's moisture - wicking fabric allows you to stay dry even on the hottest days, while being completely protected from bushes, bugs, and mud.